.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% .\" .\" @(#)makekey.8 6.3 (Berkeley) 01/19/91 .\" .TH MAKEKEY 8 "" .AT 3 .SH NAME makekey \- encrypt a key .SH SYNOPSIS .B makekey .SH DESCRIPTION .I Makekey reads a key (10 bytes) and a salt (2 bytes) from the standard input and writes the string returned by .IR crypt (3) to the standard output. See .IR crypt (3) for more information on what characters the key and salt can contain and how the encrypted value is calculated. .SH SEE ALSO login(1), crypt(1), crypt(3)